Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 70
At length, forgetting what was due to helpless beauty, to his own honour as a knight, and his word as a sovereign, he triumphed over her weakness by base and unmanly violence.
Who acts: length, passion, beauty · What happens: forget, be, triumph, honour, word · To what, where: length · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (length, passion, beauty), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 triumphed | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 forgetting | punct |
| 4 | forgetting | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 length | acl |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 due | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 due | cop |
| 7 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 4 forgetting | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 beauty | case |
| 9 | helpless | helpless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 beauty | amod |
| 10 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 due | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 honour | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 honour | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 honour | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 honour | amod |
| 15 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 forgetting | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 knight | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 knight | det |
| 18 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 honour | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 word | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 word | cc |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 word | nmod:poss |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 length | appos |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 sovereign | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 sovereign | det |
| 25 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 word | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 triumphed | nsubj |
| 28 | triumphed | triumph | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 weakness | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 weakness | nmod:poss |
| 31 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 triumphed | obl |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 base | case |
| 33 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 triumphed | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 violence | cc |
| 35 | unmanly | unmanly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 violence | amod |
| 36 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 base | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 28 triumphed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | forget | gerund | length not said here | to beauty's own honour as a knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | to helpless beauty; what nsubj; due property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | triumph | past | passion | length | over Don's weakness; by base and unmanly violence | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | honour | beauty | as a knight | nom honour «state transitive»: poss=agent as=obl | |||||
| 5 | word | beauty | as a sovereign | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent as=obl |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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